Book: A Chance Encounter in Atessa

A Chance Encounter in Atessa (Slayers #16)
Hajime Kanzaka
Rui Araizumi (Illustrator)
Elizabeth Ellis (Translator)
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So, a virtuoso sorcerer and a master swordsman walk into a bar… Yeah, you’ve heard this one before. The locals immediately hit ’em up for a job because they look sooo powerful and the town’s just that dang desperate for help. In the case of Atessa, city of blacksmiths, there’s apparently some funny business going down in the surrounding woods. Mines are being attacked, caravans raided—the whole shebang. Yup, there’s definitely something foul afoot in this forest. Frankly, I don’t care to find out what, but if the price is right…

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With how the previous book ended (#15) I was a bit wary about this one, but as I understand it, this book is like a newly created continuation? I guess it’s taken into account what the fans liked.

So with the 2 comrades (not naming them) back, this turned out into a better read.

I was wondering with all the amplification talismans gone what would Lina do? That was a believable workaround. Nice.

But… it was a short reunion! I wonder where the next book will go.

Book: 1984

1984
George Orwell
Adapted by Michael Dean
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Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can be punished by death - and Big Brother is always watching.

Orwell's classic story shows that there is no freedom unless ideas and beliefs can be questioned. This is as true today as when it was written, more than fifty years ago.

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If I say… I didn’t have 1984 as part of my school curriculum, would you believe it? My cousin dropped this book at my place a while ago, I think it was part of his son’s reading exercise at school, so it was an abridged version. I don’t think I’d have the stomach to read the actual real George Orwell version.

I’ve seen “Big Brother” thrown around here and there in news articles and other places around the internet, didn’t realize it’s from this book, but inherently, I understood that it’s a very good reference to… the country that starts with a C with starry red flag.

I don’t know why I just kept thinking about that country as I read through the book. I don’t know. Country seems would be a little more lenient that… they just off you. The whole reformation program as detailed in the book seems exhaustive, time consuming, money drain, and all that.

What I don’t understand is why he wasn’t vaporized. It’s mentioned his parents vaporized, and a couple of people were, but why reform/brainstorm/whatever him?

It’s a heavy book (even if this one I read was just 70 pages).